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LOS ANGELES, March 15 — John Nash says he is not an anti-Semite. He says he
is not a homosexual. Nor, he says, did he try to conceal any of his
deficiencies as a father or any humiliating episodes in an attempt to
glamorize his life.

To combat those rumors, Mr. Nash, a Nobel laureate whose triumph over
schizophrenia is chronicled in the Oscar-nominated film "A Beautiful Mind,"
feels obliged to go on national television: he will appear on Sunday's
edition of "60 Minutes." Some in the film industry say he is actually the
victim of a whisper campaign whose aim is to scuttle the movie's Oscar
hopes, a phenomenon they say has become increasingly common in the intense
competition for Academy Awards.

"This may not be the worst year in Oscar history, but it's pretty low," said
Pete Hammond, a film historian and consultant for American Movie Classics.
"To accuse the subject of a film of being anti-Semitic when you know that a
lot of the people who will be......

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